Fungi Multifaceted Microbes

Offering a uniquely extensive scope of coverage, Fungi: Multifaceted Microbes delves into a wide range of topics in fungal biochemistry and biotechnology. These include classical and molecular taxonomy, as well as evolutionary aspects. It addresses fungi applications in environmental control, metabolites from marine fungi, endophytic and endolythic fungi, aquatic mycology, and lichens. It also provides a chapter on the new area of fungi in nanoparticle synthesis. Written by internationally recognized experts, this book offers a highly authoritative survey of the literature that will prove useful to academic professionals across many fields, as well as both aspiring and established industrial researchers.

Ubiquitous in nature, fungi have, for centuries, provided us with a variety of useful products from cheese to alcoholic beverages, organic acids, pigments, enzymes, food and lately antibiotics and small molecular weight compounds with a variety of pharmacological applications. Highlighting the crucial role fungi play in many ecological processes, Fungi: Multifaceted Microbes explores a wide range of topics in fungal biochemistry and biotechnology. The book's sweeping coverage explores the wide range of features that give fungi their multifaceted properties. Topics explored include fungal biochemistry and biotechnology and targets for drug discovery, classical and molecular taxonomy, evolutionary aspects, secondary metabolites from marine resources, applications as mycoinsecticides and immunodiagnostics, to name just a few. The book also contains a chapter on the emerging area of fungi in nanoparticle synthesis. Given the enormous scope and dimensions of this subject, it is difficult for any single book to address every aspect of fungal biochemistry and biotechnology. The editors, each an expert in his own right, draw on articles from as wide a spectrum of international scientists as possible to provide a highly authoritative survey of the literature.

Fungal Secondary Metabolites: A Pandora's Box of Treasures, B.N. GanguliBiology and Biotechnology Potential of Saprophytic Entomophthorales, M.C. SrinivasanHymenochaetoid Fungi (Hymenochaetales, Hymenomycetes) in India, E. ParmastoEndothilic Fungi: From Biodeterioration to Human Disease, E.V. BogomolovaDiversity of Aquatic Hyphomycetes in the Tropics, I.H. Schoenlein-Crusius and E. MolassoMolecular Identification and Detection of Planet Pathogenic and Toxivogenic Fusarium Fungi, T. Yli-Mattila and S.Paavanen-HuhtalaEvolutionary Relationships Among Economically Important Aspergillus Species, J. VargaAquatic Hyphomycetes and their Meiosporic Relatives: Slow and Laborious Solving of a Jig-Saw Puzzle, L. MarvanovaRecent Trends in Phylogeny and Classification of Lichen-Forming Ascomycetes, H.T. LumbschSignificance of Lichens and Their Secondary Metabolites: A Review, D.K. Upreti and S. ChatterjeeDiversity and Applications of Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Tropical Plants, J.L. Azevedo and W.L. de AraujoNatural Products from Marine Fungi, A. PiorkoRecent Advances in the Development of Mycocinsecticides in Australia, R.J. MilnerEntomogenous Fungi and Development of Mycoinsecticides, T.S. Keshava Prasad and D.J. BhatAdvances in Immunochemical Methods for Mycotoxin/Mycotoxigenic Fungi Detection in the Agri-Food System, E.Y.S. Ono, L. Biazon, S. Fujii, M.A. Ono, and E.Y. HirookaBiosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Fungi, A. Ahmad, S. Senapati, M.I. Khan, R. Kumar, and M. SastryCan Agricultural Practices and Land Use Patterns Affect Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fundal Population and Diversity? R. Lakshmipathy, D.J. Bagyaraj, and A.N. BalakrishnaIndex